The 'Odyssey' at Stanford Summer Theater

Published 4:00 am, Sunday, July 25, 2010

L. Peter Callender (left) as Odysseus encumbered by Courtney Walsh as the nymph Calypso in Stanford Summer Theater's "The Wanderings of Odysseus"

L. Peter Callender (left) as Odysseus encumbered by Courtney Walsh as the nymph Calypso in Stanford Summer Theater's "The Wanderings of Odysseus"

Photo: Stefanie Okuda

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The Wanderings of Odysseus: L. Peter Callender plays the hero of the "Odyssey" and Courtney Walsh is Calypso, the nymph who detained him on his 10-year voyage home from the Trojan War, as Stanford Summer Theater stages the regional premiere, and only the second production, of Oxford University classicist Oliver Taplin's dramatization. Rush Rehm stages it as the anchor of Stanford's "Around the Fire" festival of Homeric performance. Other events include free staged readings of plays by Rehm and Derek Walcott, a free film series and a major symposium.